Reporter Volume 26, No.20 March 9, 1995

Praxair gift aids
engineering school
For the second consecutive year, Praxair, Inc. of Tonawanda has made a
gift of $55,000 to the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Part of the gift will be used for faculty and student enrichment in
the Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering departments.
	The first gift, given in January 1994, was used by the
departments to create the Praxair Lecture Series. The series has
featured such noted scientists as William Maxwell of Cornell
University, and Robert Graves from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
	The gift also was used to sponsor student events for the
student chapter of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and to bring
outstanding lecturers to specific undergraduate courses.
	The gift also supports the school's Praxair Professorship.
Ralph T. Yang, chairman of UB's chemical engineering department, is
the current Praxair Professor of Chemical Engineering.

Medical school to sponsor symposium
on childhood violence
The UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences will co-sponsor the
second annual Childhood Violence Symposium, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
March 16, at the Buffalo Museum of Science. The symposium's goals are
to identify the psycho-social roots of violence and ways to eliminate
or reduce them; provide information on televised violence and how to
deal with it, and explore roles that physicians and other health and
social-service professionals can play in preventing violence against
children.
	F. Bruder Stapleton, professor and chair of the Department of
Pediatrics at UB, will make opening statements.
	Other speakers will include:
	Frederick P. Rivera, Department of Pediatrics, University of
Washington, "America: Armed and Dangerous;" John P. Murray, professor
and director, School of Family Studies and Human Services, Kansas
State University, "Children & TV Violence;" Peter D. Edelman, chair,
President's Task Force on Violence, "National Policy on Violence;" R.
Gil Kerlikowske, Buffalo police commissioner, "Prevention and the
Crime Bill;" James Garbarino, family life and development director,
Cornell University, "What Children Can Tell Us About Living with
Violence;" Susan McLeer, professor and chair, Department of Psychiatry
at UB, "Treatment Approaches for Victims of Violence;" Kathleen
Litlis, chief, Emergency Department, Children's Hospital of Buffalo,
"Local Perspective."
	Karen Blount, vice president of nursing, Children's Hospital,
will lead a panel discussion from 4:15-5 p.m. A reception will follow.
	The American Academy of Family Physicians has approved the
program for six prescribed hours of continuing education credit. The
UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences has designated the
course for six hours of Category 1 credit toward the Physician's
Recognition Award of the American Medical Association.
	Registration fee is $30 for physicians and $10 for
non-physicians. Lunch will cost an additional $10. Registration
deadline is March 10.
	Other sponsors include the departments of Pediatrics and
Emergency Medicine at Children's Hospital of Buffalo, and Erie County
Chapter of the Links, Inc. For more information, contact Janet Lathrop
at 878-7109.

Mauro to speak
on fiscal crisis
Frank Mauro, executive director of the Fiscal Policy Institute in
Albany, will address the UB community on "The Roots of the NYS Fiscal
Crisis and Its Implications for Education" at the Student Union
Theater today at 3 p.m. A question-
and-answer period will follow the discussion.
	The program is sponsored by UB United, a coalition of student
governments at UB and the local chapter of United University
Professions (UUP). Students from other colleges as well as concerned
members of the Western New York community have been invited to attend.
	Other events include a question-and-answer forum Friday, March
10 at noon in the Student Union. Assemblyman Edward C. Sullivan, chair
of the State Assembly's committee on higher education, will address
student concerns about the budget cuts.

Nursing student
wins Fuld Fellowship
Lucia R. Almeda, a junior nursing student at UB, has received a 1995
Fuld Fellowship from the Helene Fuld Health Trust, an award that
recognizes a "demonstrated interest in holistic nursing, as well as
academic and extracurricular achievements." Almeda is one of 53
nursing students chosen to receive the fellowships from more than 400
applicants. The Fuld trust is the largest charitable trust dedicated
to nursing in the U.S.
	The Fuld Fellowship will pay all the recipients' registration
fees for the 1995 National Convention of the National Student Nurses'
Association, to be held April 5-9 in Charlotte, N.C. It will also pay
traveling and lodging expenses, special program fees and a personal
stipend for recipients to attend nursing conferences in Edinburgh,
Scotland, and London, England.
	Recipients are expected to share knowledge gained from these
conferences with peers and faculty in their schools of nursing. They
also will be required to write an essay about their experiences.

Candino, Campbell to speak at Management roundtable sessions 
The UB School of Management will present a series of morning seminars
designed to help provide managers with information needed to compete
successfully in the challenging modern markets. They will be held once
a month from 8-9 a.m. at Fanny's Restaurant, 3500 Sheridan Drive,
Amherst.
	The schedule:
o March 23, "ECMC Financial Turnaround & Current Health-Care Trend,"
featuring Paul J. Candino, chief executive officer of the Erie County
Medical Center, who will discuss the significant accomplishments made
in turning around the medical center's financial and operational
performance.
o April 27, "TQM: Ten Years Later," Drew Cambell, quality manager from
QUNO Corp., will discuss the progress and pitfalls of a large American
newsprint company working with the Deming philosophies.
o May 18, "High Performance Workplace Strategies for the Future: What
Does It Take." Fred Smith, Outokumpu American Brass training and
development manager, and Tony Strusa, United Steelworkers of America
Local 593 E.I. facilitator, will present a case study on one
self-directed work team, and plans for the future.
o June 15, "Total Quality Management at Motorola Means 'Six Sigma' in
Everything We Do." John Lupienski, quality manager for Motorola, will
examine total quality management and the six sigma process.
	Fee for the roundtable session, which includes breakfast and
lecture materials, is $40 per session, or $120 for all four sessions.
For more information call 645-3200.

UB co-sponsors
Malaysia conference
Top scientists, managers and government representatives of 30
countries from every continent gathered in Malaysia recently at the
Third International Conference on Frontiers of Polymer Research and
Advanced Materials, organized by UB.
	The conference is now regarded as one of the leading
international forums at which participants are able to share news of
scientific developments and discuss potential business opportunities
in the field of polymers and advanced materials. 
	Attendees included representatives from corporations such as
Dow Corning, Hoechst Celanese, Toray Industries, Ford Motor Company
and Boeing. Scientific institutions represented included University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; University of Cincinnati; University of
Pennsylvania;  University of Massachusetts, and the Standards and
Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia.
	Paras N. Prasad, photonics science professor of chemistry at
UB, was international chair of the conference. He also gave welcoming
and closing remarks and chaired a technical session.
	D. Allen Cadenhead, associate dean for natural sciences and
mathematics at UB, was a speaker. Stephen C. Dunnett, vice provost for
international education at UB, also attended.

VLSI Symposium Set for March 16-18
The Fifth Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (Very Large Scale Integrated)
computer chip technology will be held at UB March 16-18 at the Buffalo
Marriott. Speakers from around the world will present papers on
state-of-the-art advances in electronics.
	Dale M. Landi, vice president for research, will give the
welcoming address. James D. Meindl, Joseph M. Petit Chair Professor of
Microelectronics at Georgia Institute of Technology will deliver the
keynote address on "21st Century Gigascale Integration." 
	The conference was organized by Ramalingam Sridhar and Shambhu
J. Upadhyaya, both associate professors of electrical and computer
engineering at UB, Sreejit K. Chakravarty, associate professor of
computer science at UB and Victor Demjanenko, assistant professor of
electrical and computer engineering.  
	It is co-sponsored by UB, the IEEE and the Association for
Computing Machinery. 
	For more information, contact Sridhar at 645-2422, ext. 2139.